Color photography.



N0. 827,241. PATENTED JULY 31, 1906.

N. H. HYDE'. COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 19, 1905.

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- NEWTON H. HYDE. OE MANCHESTER, IOWA.

coL'on PHOTOGRAPHY..

' Application lllsd Jennery .To all'whom-it mali/ concern.: i i, y

Be it known-that I, NEWTON H. HYDE, a

citi-zen of lthe United States,"residing at Manchester, in the county of Delaware and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and, use- "ful Improvements in Color Photography; and

I do declarel the followingto bea full, clear,

and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to a process for treating and preparing photographic ne atives so as to increase the contrast and intensity of the colorvalues of negatives intended for use in making photo# 4graphic reproductions of objects in colors similar to nature.

In the usual. process of making negatives for reproducing colors two or more negatives are made of the'same object or view. from the 'same position through differently-colored l l rayiilters or screens on platesv articular] ise'nsitive to the various colors o the ray ters or screensy used, thereby .obtaining two or more negatives 'each of which will have-an "image particularly 'strong or intense with reone nega` spect to one color. For example, tive taken through a blue screen will show ject photographed more opaque and the yellow or red more transparent.- Another negative taken through a redl or ellow ray-v screen will be more* opaque in t e red and yellow and more transparent in the blue, and so on with the netgatives taken through ray lters'or screens o other colors.

The objectief my invention is to increase the contrast 'and intensity of the color values of such ne atives, so that more erfect results may Ine 'obtained than has eretofore been ossiblexwith negatives made as above descri ed.

In the accompanying drawin s, Figures 1 and 2 re resent 'diagrammatical y two negatives A of the same object, taken throu h djferently-colr'ed ray filters or screens, t e negative A being' taken through a blue screen and thenegative B through a red one. Fig.

3 is the positive maderom the original ne ative A. Fig. 4 representsfa compositel rmt or impression taken from the negative and the positive C combined. Fig. 5 represents'a positive made from the -composite print or mipression D. Fig. 6 represents a positive A madeby combining negative A in contact specinmion df Letter. Patent.

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.which it appertains to make and use the same. My linvention relates to improvements v'in Acolor photography, and more particularly to the parts corresponding to the blue in the obrespectivelly y Haunted .'ruiy e1, 190e.'

and register with the print or imA ression D, and Fig.,7V represents a positive made'by lcombining negative B in contact and register with the print or impression E. .f 'f

One mode'of practicing my invention is as follows: From two or more negatives of the same subject made through diferentl colored ray filters or screens and preferab y upon plates each of which .is particularly sensitive to one of such colors I make one or more positives,and` combine them with the' proper negatives. For instance, when I have two negativesA'B, as illustrated in the drawin s, one taken through a blue screen and the vot er through a red one, I make` the posithen adjust this positive register with the other negative vB-the one more transparent in the 'blue and more opaque in the red. This combinationof the' negative B andthe positive C causes each toV tive C from one of them-as shown, from thel f cancel or offset the other in a general way in black and white, while the blue is rendered 8o relatively more 7transparent and the lred moreopa ue.' The combination of a negas tive B an the positive C causes those parts 'representing black and white in the original to cancel o r offset each other, sice the gradations in density in the two are exactly'opposite in the parts that were black and white in the original object or view, the gradations of densityin regard to the other colors being the negative B and positive'C. I then make on a sensitized film upon celluloid film, plate, or pa er b light passin through bothnega tive an positive C, t e two being in contact, as `described, oneor `-more composite prints or impressions D. A'

It -ll 'be understood that'parts bfthe 0b- .ject ORview that were black and white will he negative and that said black and white' parts in the positive C will be reversed-that 1s, respectively, opaque and transparentso that-'when the negative B and positive C are placed -in'contact and register with each other and the' rint or impression D is taken the black` an white will offset eachotherthat l'is to sa the black will be toned 'flown or ren-N dered ess black and the whitewill beto a augmented, since' they are'similarly located -in 9o transparent and opaque in 'the` :oc

corres onding extent'darkened 6r' rendered i less w 'te-in orderthat they ma e ualize each-'other'in the composite D. 'gVhi e the black andfwhite will `thus equalizeor cancel IIO each other in the composite D, the color values will at the same time be strengthened or intensified, the accumulative effect of thecomposite arran ement of the negative. and positive causin t e colors to be strengthened or vivifed. T 's strengthenin or vivifying of the colors is due partly to t e composite arrangement of the negative and positive and partly to the result o the contrast between the colors and the effect resulting from the toning down of the black and the darkening of the white. The composite D may therefore be said to'represent the color values apart from the general black and white contrasts. This impression or print D is then used in contact and register with the original negative A, which combination causes an increased contrast in color values, the blue showing more opaque and the red'relatively more transparent. In other words, the composite A', which results and which is shown in Fig. 6, has its blue relatively intensified to a marked degree, as shown. Of course A cannot be actually more transparent in the red than A; but it is relatively more transparent in the red, because 'it is more opaque in the neutral and decidedly more opaque in the blue. In order to obtain another negative o r compositein which the red will be sinnlarly intensified, I make a positive (shown in Fig. 5) from one or more of the impressions or prints D and combine this positive E with the original negative B in order to obtain the composite B', (shown in Fig. 7,) in which the contrast and intensity of color values are eatly increased, the parts that were origina yblue showing relatively more transparent and the red parts decidedly more opaque. It will be seen that I aim to make my .composite impression D absolutely transparent in the red and E absolutely transparent in the blue. If still greater intensity of contrast is desired, two o'r more impressions D are made and placed in contact and register with each other to permit the impression or positive E to be made from them by transmitted light. The use of these negatives in color photo aphy will be readily understood by those skilled in the art, and further description` of the entire process is deemed unnecessary.

It will be understood that I may use any method of printing from these negatives. The process may be used for printing photographs or for making half-tones or process-plates to be used on a press.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The improvement in color photogra hy, which consists in first making negatives o the same subject, then making a positive from one of said negatives, then makin a composite from such positive and one o said nega-- tives when in registration, and then making a photograplnc impression from said composite and one of the other of said negatives .ter with each other, and then making a p otographic impression from such composite and one of the other of said ne atives when in contact and register with eac other.

3. The improvement in color photography which consists inirst making two negatives of the same subject, each through a Vray filter or screen of a distinctive color, then making a positive from one of said ,negatives, then making a composite from said positive and the other of said negatives while in contact and4 register with each other, then placin such composite in contact and register wit the negative from which said positive was made and obtaining a photographic impression therefrom.

4. The improvement in color photogra hy, which consists in first making negatives oilthe same subject, then making a positive from one of said negatives, then makin a composite from such positive and oneo said negatives when `in registration, then making a ositive from said composite then placing the ast-mentioned positive and said com osite in register res ectively with certain o said negatives and o taining photographic impressions therefrom.

5. The process of color photography, which consists infirst making two negatives A, B, of the same subject each through a ray filter or screen of a distinctive color, then making a ositive from one of said negatives, then making a composite D from said positive C and said negative B while in contact and register with each other, themmaking a positive E from said composite D, then making photographic im ressions A andB- b placin said composite negative A and said positive re ister with said negative B.

n testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

in contact and NEWTON H. HYDE.

Witnesses HUBERT CARR, Jos. HU'roinNsoN.

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